Carson v. Steam-Boat Talma

On the 18th of November, 1848, one *195Henry G. Carson filed in the clerk’s office of the Circuit Court an affidavit of his demand against the steam-boat Talma. The demand was for a debt due for work and labor, &c. (1). On the same day, an attachment, founded on said affidavit, was issued against the boat. This attachment commanded the sheriff to seize the boat, and summon the owners if found, or, if not found, then the clerk, or some other officer of the boat, to appear to the suit at the then next term of the Court, on the first Monday in February, 1849. The sheriff’s return to the attachment…